Allen Glatter

Rawson Projects is very proud to present its second solo exhibition with Allen Glatter. The exhibition, titled Like A Gas Station In The Arctic, features three new sculptures and five drawings and is the first time the artist has shown in the gallery's current space on the Lower East Side.

An interview between the artist and the gallery about the exhibition follows:

Rawson Projects: First, I'd like to talk about the title for your second show at the gallery. The work in the first show was inspired by the NATO phonetic alphabet, what is the inspiration behind this new series of sculptures and drawings? How does language influence your work?

Allen Glatter: It’s a quote by Charles M. blow, the political commentator. He used it as a metaphor for the pre-Trump Russian economy, but in terms of its imagery it sums up the spirit of the kind of show I wanted to do. In terms of the sculpture, I think of them as being comprised of parts and the parts of having a syntax. This is the way I described them while working in the studio, of this piece being comprised of a C part or a Z part, just to help keep track of things. This is true for the drawings as well though I'm not as rigid about it.

RP: Second, I'd like to discuss both the materials and the process used to create the drawings and the sculptures in this show. In our first show together, the sculptures were fabricated with powder-coated aluminum and finished in highly saturated colors. While here, the sculptures were made by hand from scratch. The drawings in our first show were made using pendulums and this new series of drawings also seems to take a new turn.

AG: After the previous series of sculptures, which was fabricated to a high standard, powder-coated etc., I was interested in the possibility of doing a group of pieces that was looser, more spontaneous and less dependent on fabrication.

RP: Lastly, tell me about your next outdoor public commission– How will the sculpture relate to this exhibition and your previous sculptures that have been installed in the public?

AG: I was commissioned to do a sculpture for a large residential development that's currently in the works in Long Island City, very close to PS1 so it's a terrific opportunity. I can't talk about it too much tight now, but the sculpture is part of the same series of pieces that I did with Parks Department and DOT. Stay tuned.

Allen Glatter received a BFA from Pratt Institute and lives and works in Brooklyn. In the summer of 2013, he installed his first large-scale outdoor sculpture Tally-Ho at the intersection of York and Front Streets in Dumbo, Brooklyn as part of the NYC Department of Transportation Arterventions Program. Most recently, the sculptures Toro and Western Movies both 2013, were exhibited as part of the summer 2014 exhibition at Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson, NY. The sculpture Toro (steel version) was installed in cooperation with New York City Department of Parks and Recreation at the intersection of Grand Street and East Broadway in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in spring 2015. Additionally, the artist's work has been exhibited in the NEWD Art Fair, NY; The Dumbo Arts Festival, NY; Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA; NADA Hudson, Hudson NY; Model Theories at Ford Project, NY.

Allen Glatter would like to thank Krink for its generous support.